Incidental Courses on Formal Esthetics, Algorithmic Art, Perception and Visualization       IAAA     Remko Scha   




Formal Perspectives on Visual Representation

Mehdi Dastani, Yuri Engelhardt and Remko Scha

Guest Speakers: Jos de Bruin, Jan Rekers, Susan Üsküdarli,
Karel van der Waarde, Dejuan Wang, Henk Zeevat.

Research Seminar at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Computational Linguistics, Spring 1996.

READINGS:

I. The Visual Presentation of Information.

Barbara Tversky: "Cognitive origins of graphic productions." In: F.T. Marchese (ed.): Understanding Images. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995.

Karel van der Waarde: "A history of visual presentation." Ms., University of Amsterdam, Department of Computational Linguistics, 1996.

Michael Twyman: "A schema for the study of graphic language." In: P.A. Kolers, M.E. Wrolstad and H. Bouman (eds.): Processing of Visible Language, Volume 1, pp. 117–150. New York: Plenum Press, 1979.

Marian Petre: "Why looking isn't always seeing: Readership skills and graphic programming." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 6 (June 1995).

Joseph Marks and Ehud Reiter: "Avoiding unwanted implicatures in text and graphics." In: Thomas Dietterich and William Swartout (eds.): Proceedings of the Eight National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, 1990, pp. 450–456. AAAI / MIT Press.

Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "Deriving optimal network diagrams by means of structural information theory." In: Rens Bod, Mehdi Dastani, Hub Prüst, Remko Scha and Henk Zeevat (eds.): HCI from a Discourse Perspective. ESPRIT report (Basic Research Action P6296). Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh University, 1993.

Jock Mackinlay: "Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information." ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 5 (1986), No. 2.


II. Visual (Programming) Languages and Visual Reasoning.

Zenon Kulpa: "Diagrammatic representation and reasoning." Proceedings GKPO '94, Spala, Poland, May 16–20, 1994.

Peter A. van der Helm: "The dynamics of Prägnanz." Psychological Research 56 (1994), pp. 224–236.

S. Üsküdarli and T. Dinesh: "Towards a visual programming environment generator for algebraic specifications."

Jan Rekers: "A definition of the graphical syntax of basic message sequence charts." Ms., Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1996.

J. Rekers and A. Schürr: "A graph grammar approach to graphical parsing." Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'95), Darmstadt, Germany, 1995, pp. 195–202.

Dejuan Wang, John Lee and Henk Zeevat: "Reasoning with diagrammatic representations."